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Black Abolitionist Archive
John Peck
Colored American - September 14, 1839
William Thomas Catto
Colored American - September 29, 1838
William Craft
Weekly Anglo-African - December 29, 1860
Palladium of Liberty - August 28, 1844
Impartial Citizen - June 27, 1849
Provincial Freeman - January 13, 1855
Pacific Appeal - June 6, 1863
Provincial Freeman - November 11, 1854
Martin Robison Delany
William J. Watkins
Frederick Douglass' Paper - January 26, 1855
Palladium of Liberty - May 15, 1844
Weekly Anglo-African - May 11, 1861
Henry Highland Garnet
Pacific Appeal - April 19, 1862

From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, some 300 black abolitionists were regularly involved in the antislavery movement, heightening its credibility and broadening its agenda. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files.

Please contact the library reference desk at edesk@udmercy.edu  or 313-993-1071 for assistance with this collection. 

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